BACKGROUND: Social recognition underlies social behavior in animals, and patients with psychiatric disorders associated with social deficits show abnormalities in social recognition. Oxytocin is implicated in social behavior and has received atten...
Shota Okabe Masahide Yoshida Yuki Takayanagi Tatsushi Onaka
Neuroscience letters 600 22-7 2015年7月 [査読有り]
Gentle touching or stroking has anxiolytic actions and contributes to the establishment of an intimate relationship between individuals. Oxytocin administration also has anxiolytic actions and facilitates social behaviors. In this study, we examin...
ONAKA Tatsushi OKABE Shota TAKAYANAGI Yuki YOSHIDA Masahide
Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 21(3) 189-195 (J-STAGE)-195 2015年
Oxytocin plays an essential role in milk ejection and parturition in mammals. Oxytocin has also been shown to be involved in the control of various behaviors, including anxiety-related behaviors, food intake and affiliative behaviors.<br>We previo...
Fear responses play evolutionarily beneficial roles, although excessive fear memory can induce inappropriate fear expression observed in posttraumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, and phobia. To understand the neural machineries that underlie ...
Oxytocin (OXT) and OXT receptor (OXTR) have been implicated in the regulation of energy homeostasis, but the detailed mechanism is still unclear. We recently showed late-onset obesity and impaired cold-induced thermogenesis in male OXTR knockout (...
Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo 75(11) 1205-1209 2023年11月
Resilience is a term that describes the capacity of coping with and recovering from stress and adversity. In terms of the concept of allostasis, resilience is the ability to appropriately regulate allostasis, efficiently terminate the allostatic r...
自治医科大学
医学部